Background

GIS Data for King County

King County GIS Open Data offers a comprehensive Geographic Information System (GIS) platform where users can explore, visualize, and download a wide variety of spatial data sets related to King County. The website features data organized into rich thematic categories including Administrative, Census, Districts, Environment, Hydrography, Natural Resources, Planning, Political, Property, Public Safety, Recreation, Survey, Topography, Transportation, and Utilities. Users can access specialized resources such as the Climate Change GIS Open Data Site for historic and projected climate conditions, the Spatial Data Catalog for metadata and data indexing, and custom data orders. The portal also links to additional valuable data repositories like Data.KingCounty.gov with over a thousand datasets, LocalScape community maps, and Metro Transit developer resources including GTFS files. For enhanced user engagement, King County showcases web mapping applications like the multifunctional iMap, the King County Voter Turnout by Precinct Story Map, the My Commute travel alerts app, and the Metro Transit System viewer, demonstrating dynamic and interactive uses of GIS data. This makes the King County GIS Open Data website an essential resource for anyone seeking detailed spatial insights and tools to analyze and understand the geographic dimensions of neighborhoods, environments, infrastructure, and services within King County.